Topics

• Getting there
  Discover the various forms of transport used to travel to the seaside, from coach and horses, trains, bicycles, cars, motor-coaches and motorbikes.

• What to wear
  Original prints and photographs of people on the beach, mostly in bathing costumes, from the 1840s to the 1970s.

• On the beach
  What people did on the seafront from 1910 to the 1970s. Includes goat carts, donkeys, sandcastles, Punch and Judy, cricket, trampolines, pedal cars and water chutes.

• In the water
  Original prints and photographs from the 1860s to the 1970s of what people did in the sea. Includes bathing machines, paddling, bathing and shrimping.

• On the water
  Historical background and scanned original photographs from 1910 to the 1980s of people on the sea in inflatables, rowing boats, paddle-steamers, motor boats, pedaloes and windsurfers.

• Piers
  Information and images from the 1860s to the 1970s showing Bognor, Littlehampton and Worthing piers.

• Holiday camps
  Sources and historical background from the 1920s to the 1970s featuring camps and caravan sites at Bogor Regis, Lancing, Littlehampton, Selsey and Worthing.

• Souvenirs
  Seaside souvenirs from the 1840s to the 1990s including china items, spectacle and needle cases, and mugs.

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